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Title: Determining Reaction of Atoms using Electron Configuration help.
Post by: zinc19 on December 08, 2010, 10:15:55 AM
Use electron configurations to show the reaction between the following pairs of atoms, producing ion pairs with noble gas configurations:
A.   Mg and I       B.   Na and F


Anybody have any idea how to do this? Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: Determining Reaction of Atoms using Electron Configuration help.
Post by: sjb on December 08, 2010, 11:20:12 AM
Quote from: zinc19 on December 08, 2010, 10:15:55 AM
Use electron configurations to show the reaction between the following pairs of atoms, producing ion pairs with noble gas configurations:
A.   Mg and I       B.   Na and F


Anybody have any idea how to do this? Thanks in advance.

For starters, what is the electronic configuration of the atoms you have written?
Title: Re: Determining Reaction of Atoms using Electron Configuration help.
Post by: zinc19 on December 08, 2010, 11:42:03 AM
Quote from: sjb on December 08, 2010, 11:20:12 AM
Quote from: zinc19 on December 08, 2010, 10:15:55 AM
Use electron configurations to show the reaction between the following pairs of atoms, producing ion pairs with noble gas configurations:
A.   Mg and I       B.   Na and F


Anybody have any idea how to do this? Thanks in advance.

For starters, what is the electronic configuration of the atoms you have written?


The electron configuration of Mg is: (Ne) 3s 2
The electron configuration of I is : (Kr) 4d 10 5s 2 5p 5
Title: Re: Determining Reaction of Atoms using Electron Configuration help.
Post by: opti384 on December 09, 2010, 02:26:02 AM
Now do you understand the nature of the bond between the two given examples A and B?
Title: Re: Determining Reaction of Atoms using Electron Configuration help.
Post by: AWK on December 09, 2010, 05:39:11 AM
http://www.chalkbored.com/lessons/chemistry-11/bonding-ionic-answers.ppt